Rabih Alameddine ("An Unnecessary Woman," "The Hakawati") talks about his sixth novel, "The Angel of History," and about the German-Jewish Marxist literary critic Walter Benjamin, the “othering” of Arabs in Western societies, and contemporary gay life, among other matters.

Serpico, Part II

Antonino D'Ambrosio's documentary "Frank Serpico" reveals the man behind the myth more than 40 years after the maverick cop exposed massive corruption in the NYPD -- and was immortalized in Sidney Lumet's 1973 biopic starring Al Pacino.